Supporters insist that the one-woman stage play will uplift the audience, even as they learn about Fannie Lou Hamer.

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt. She ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.

The journey of a civil rights-era pioneer will be featured in a play on a stage in North Texas this weekend.Fannie Lou Hamer ...

Lessie Benningfield Randle, one of the last living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, cast her vote in the 2024 ...

Harris got this far because of those who came before her — Shirley Chisholm, Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan, to name a ...

As a safe space for Black creatives to execute their artistic visions, foster connections and find a community,UC Berkeley’s ...

Award-winning actress and playwright Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye is taking her one-woman play about civil rights and voting activist Fannie Lou Hamer on the road again. It’s all part of “The Voice of ...

In honor of Election Day, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has highlighted 10 voting rights posters from its collection.

Check out photos and video of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, on stage at Marriott Theatre this holiday season, previewing ...

Two days before the Nov. 5 election, Opal Lee will bring a play to Fort Worth that pays tribute to Hamer’s legacy as a voting ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.